Wisdom of the crowd? Information aggregation in representative democracy

Prato, Carlo; Wolton, Stephane

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2022.05.010

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“…Many studies focus in particular on information aggregation in the presence of strategic information provision and incentives to mislead (e.g. Lupia and McCubbins 1994, Austen-Smith and Banks 1996, Prato and Wolton 2022. Others focus on how groups of individuals can overcome individual limitations to reach better collective decisions (e.g.…”

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Information Processing in Participatory Governance

Berliner

2023

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Participatory governance institutions often aim to yield information useful to policymakers, whether about public preferences, problems, solutions, or perspectives. But how can large numbers of public contributions be processed into interpretable and actionable information outputs? As theorists and practitioners increasingly call for participatory governance to operate at larger scales, often enabled by new technologies, this challenge only becomes more important. Building on research across political theory, public administration, and political science, this paper develops and illustrates three claims: First, that information processing plays an essential and under-appreciated role in participatory governance. Second, that there are distinct types of information processing, best characterised by two dimensions of specificity and novelty. And third, that these types differ in their costs, in the extent to which they can be delegated to non-experts or to automation, and in their potential consequences for unrepresentative participation. Better recognising these differences will help both researchers and practitioners better understand the potential and the limitations of participatory governance institutions in different settings and with different goals.

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Information Processing in Participatory Governance

Berliner

2023

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Voting equilibria and public funding of political parties

Correa-Lopera,

Moreno

2024

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Direct public funding to political parties exists in most OECD countries and its allocation is executed on the basis of two principles: (i) proportional to the votes (or alternatively the number of seats), and (ii) equal distribution. We consider a situation in which there are two scenarios and two policies, where the optimal policy for each scenario is different. We study which policy is implemented when public political funding is introduced and voters are uncertain about the realized scenario. First, when the goal is to implement the optimal policy, we find that direct public funding to political parties is necessary if voters are more likely to be right than wrong about the scenario. Second, we characterize all equilibria based on voters’ beliefs, the amount of money proportionally allocated, and the parties’ preferences over the pairs scenario-policy and being in office.

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Wisdom of the crowd? Information aggregation in representative democracy

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

Information Processing in Participatory Governance

Information Processing in Participatory Governance

Voting equilibria and public funding of political parties

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